On Mon, 03 Nov 2014, Maurice Kinal wrote to Vince Coen:

 MK> For example, using the datetime stamp and TZUTC in coreutils' date
 MK> command produces;

 MK> fidonet@zoltan [ ~/archives ]$ date --date="03 Nov 14  01:01:27
 MK> 0000" date: invalid date '03 Nov 14  01:01:27 0000'

because your ""code"" sloppily forgets to prepend the necessary '+'
character... the FTN TZUTC standard/proposal is NOT the same thing that you are
trying to say it is... if your tools need the '+' character on the timezone
string, then it is up to /you/ to add and remove it when necessary instead of
complaining about and breaking everyone else's software all across the FTN
networks that are in operation...

you've been told this repeatedly over the last decade at least... fix your code
and quit whining about it... PLEASE...

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